Are we having a peaceful Rosh HaShana ?

B"H

Nobody knows what is going to happen. Not, that anyone of us humans knows what the future will bring us. But at the moment, things don't look to secure.

Since Israeli fighter jets flew over Syrian territory last Wednesday night, Syria keeps on threatening Israel with an attack. In Israel, we only knew about the incident from Syrian news reports, as our government kept quite until yesterday when Olmert eventually decided to have a press conference. A conference where the press wasn't allowed to ask any questions and Olmert himself went on and on and on by rather talking to himself.
It is well known that he is not the brightest person but what he said yesterday, one cannot even call stupidity anymore. He is just ignorant, only cares about himself and his career and the people don't matter to him at all.

Inhabitants of the Northern town of Kiryat Shemonah already announced that they don't want another war, as they are still fed up from last year. Kiryat Shemonah was severely attacked during the second Lebanon War.

The press claims that the Israelis jets flew over Syria because they wanted to spy out Syrian army bases where missiles against fighter jets are installed. Those missiles could reach any military aircraft flying over Syrian territory and destroy them within seconds. However, no one knows any details and I think that Olmerts doesn’t have a clue either.

Now, Rosh HaShana is coming up and army representatives as well as politicians suggest that the army should hand out gas mask to the population. Defense Minister Ehud Barak is against it and only considers the idea as causing an unnecessary panic.

Rosh HaShana with gas masks ? I think that Meschiach is really overdue.